Resources for Teaching About Cities and Villages: ESL/EFL/ESOL
In this post I share my best resources for teaching about cities and villages to English language learners. These lessons include naming things found in cities, categorizing municipal services, and describing the differences between cities and villages.
Around the end of my second month as an auxiliar de conversación (an English language assistant teacher in Spain), my second and third grade classes began working on lessons about cities and municipalities in their social science classes. Since I taught English at a bilingual (Spanish and English) school, my job was to reinforce, in English, whatever the students learned in Spanish in their academic classes. More specifically, my job was to encourage the students to speak English. So, my lesson plans are focused on speaking English and include a lot of interactive activities.
I hope you find these resources useful for teaching about cities and villages with your own primary school students!
Table of Contents:
Complete English Lesson Plans
English Games and Activities
English Songs
Complete English Lesson Plans:
Cities and Villages (Second Grade)
To download the above English lesson plan for second grade primary school students, click here.
Cities and Villages (Third Grade)
To download the above English lesson plan for second grade primary school students, click here.
English Games and Activities:
Categories! - Divide students into teams of 4-6 people. Explain that you will give the students a category, and they will have to think of as many English words and phrases in that category as they can before time runs out. Instruct students to assign a group leader who will write down all of the words and phrases they think of. Put an online timer on the screen. (The amount of time you give students for each category is up to you, but I would suggest 2-5 minutes.) Then, tell students the first category and start the timer. When the timer ends, make each group read aloud their responses, and give them a point for each correct answer. Keep track of the groups’ points on the board to get the students excited. Example categories for lessons on cities and villages include:
Things cities have but not villages (i.e. lots of people, tall buildings, etc.)
Things villages have but not cities (i.e. few people, small buildings, etc.)
Places/buildings in a city (i.e. school, library, etc.)
Jobs in a city (i.e. teacher, doctor, etc.)
See the lesson plans above for more games and activities that are built into the presentations.
English Songs:
Where Are You Going? - a children’s song that mentions several places in a city/town/village
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